Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:19:33 +0100 (CET) From: Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it> Subject: ports/141913: [MAINTAINER] security/botan: improved package description Message-ID: <200912230719.nBN7JXNQ016931@lapo.andxor.it> Resent-Message-ID: <200912230720.nBN7K2e3082820@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 141913 >Category: ports >Synopsis: [MAINTAINER] security/botan: improved package description >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: maintainer-update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 23 07:20:01 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Lapo Luchini >Release: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 amd64 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD lapo.andxor.it 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 08:22:32 UTC >Description: As directly requested (and written) by the upstream author (with whom I agree completely on the issue) I include a new pkg-description that is both more descriptive of what botan is and less prone to obsoletion (avoiding details such as very specific algorithms names). Generated with FreeBSD Port Tools 0.99 >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- botan-1.8.8.patch begins here --- diff -ruN --exclude=CVS /usr/ports/security/botan/pkg-descr /usr/home/lapo/ports/botan/pkg-descr --- /usr/ports/security/botan/pkg-descr 2002-08-21 05:32:40.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/home/lapo/ports/botan/pkg-descr 2009-12-23 08:12:17.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,16 +1,14 @@ -Botan (formerly OpenCL) aims to be a portable, easy to use, and efficient -C++ crypto library. It currently supports the following algorithms: +Botan is a crypto library written in C++. It provides a variety of +cryptographic algorithms, including common ones such as AES, MD5, SHA, +HMAC, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, DSA, and ECDSA, as well as many others that +are more obscure or specialized. It also offers X.509v3 certificates +and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests. A message processing +system that uses a filter/pipeline metaphor allows for many common +cryptographic tasks to be completed with just a few lines of code. +Assembly optimizations for common CPUs, including x86, x86-64, and +PowerPC, offers further speedups for critical tasks such as SHA-1 +hashing and multiple precision integer operations. - Public Key Algorithms: Diffie-Hellman, DSA, ElGamal, Nyberg-Rueppel, - Rabin-Williams, RSA - Block Ciphers: Blowfish, CAST256, CAST5, CS-Cipher, DES, GOST, IDEA, - Lion, Luby-Rackoff, MISTY1, RC2, RC5, RC6, Rijndael, SAFER-SK128, - Serpent, SHARK, Skipjack, Square, TEA, Threeway, Twofish, XTEA - Stream Ciphers: ARC4, ISAAC, SEAL - Hash Functions: HAVAL, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-1, - SHA2-256, SHA2-512, Tiger, Whirlpool - MACs: EMAC, HMAC, MD5-MAC, ANSI X9.19 MAC - Misc: Adler32, CRC24, CRC32, Randpool, X9.17 RNG - Cipher Modes: CBC w/ Padding, CTS, CFB, OFB, Counter +Botan is licensed under the same permissive terms as FreeBSD itself. WWW: http://botan.randombit.net/ --- botan-1.8.8.patch ends here --- >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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